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It is weird how the accounts on what columbus did and what did he stand for varies between here and Italy (where I was born and raised).

Not that I feel strongly about Columbus because he was Italian, he was just a dude who happened to be born in the same general area centuries before me, but there are letters of him advocating the spaniards to stop the mistreatment of the natives.

Is weird that I never saw that disproved or anything, just its existence ignored.

This is interesting because growing here in NY in the 90s he was taught to us as a great man who "found" america and had a great feast with the locals. It was only until recently that people started to question him and his actions. Whats the general opinion of him in italy?

When it comes to the opinion of the average Italian there is not much to say.
You study him at school, study where he came from who he asked for support on his quest and we kinda mock him a bit for thinking he found India.

Then if you are a history geek here there are documents with more details on him including the one I was talking about.

But we do not really care about him that much.
I discovered that Italo americans seems to care more (since they are italians who are in america) but I don't think he would figure high in the list of Italian heroes.
For sure there is a pretty long list that goes before him that would include people like:

Giuseppe Garibaldi

Galileo Galilei

Leonardo da Vinci

Giulio Cesare

Costantino

Giovanni Falcone & Paolo Borsellino

Enrico Mattei

Columbus is a big deal as by discovering a new continent he changed the world, but he kinda stubled on it by mistake, and if we want to be honest he did not discover america, the Vikings did way before, and the idea that the world was round was certainly not his.